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Lovely walk on beach at Lorne, the walked to Erskine waterfalls, beautiful along a fern gully. Had coffee at Pier cafe, and who should we see but SANTA !!! He was getting his boat out, then rowed off into the Bay, hope he gets back in time to get sleigh ready! Drove by stunning beaches and cliffs, saw Wye river and Kennet river and arrived at Apollo Bay. Stayed at ...

... they do best of course!) we noticed that the café had an outdoor balcony on which were perched parrots of every colour imaginable, green and red, blue and red, yellow. It was incredible. The owners fed the birds and encouraged customers to do so as well. One of the trees outside was just full of birds. One in particular was incredibly friendly, a rather rotund parrot called Fatso who obviously enjoyed the bird seed more than the others and would fly down when his name was ...

We found a campsite in the middle of the national park which you need a permit for, however tourist info was shut so was told to buy one in the morning if ranger comes round, however if not, don't bother. (Cheeky free night again.) As we pulled in we saw our first wild kangaroos. I got so close to them. They are amazing animals. So tame to humans being around them. We set up site and cracked on with some yummy dinner. Played some cards then the two ...

... side munching on some grass. We tried to find a way across to get a better look at it, but couldn't find one. We found another trail on the other side of our site so we took a stroll down it to see if it would be as nature-filled. All we came across was an animal of some sort calling out from the trees and what sounded like something in the river beside the trail. Not knowing what either of them were we started heading back to the camp site. ...

... this moment it was stronger than ever. I popped up, jumped behind the wheel and started to drive off. As I headed out of the dark area, I could see two people in my headlights that would have were headed my way. Now for all I know, they were on a stroll through the park....at 1:00AM...or maybe having listened to Lone Survivor on audio book all day just put something in my head....either way, I was out of there, on to the next rest stop, one that provided a much better place to ...